Does being tickled make you laugh differently?

Do you think your laugh sounds different depending why you are laughing?

Does someone tickling you make you break out in laughter?

For a lot of people it does.

However, researchers have now found that the way we laugh from being tickled is 'uniquely different' from other types of laughter - like the laughter after hearing a joke.

Do you think your laugh sounds different depending on whether something is funny or is ticklish? Or maybe you can hear the difference in someone else's laugh? Let us know in the comments below.

What have researchers found?

People were able to correctly identify laughter induced by tickling 60% of the time

Researchers at the University of Amsterdam conducted a listening experiment to see if people could identify different types of laughter.

Around 200 people were tasked to identify different types of laughter such as tickling-induced giggles, laughter at a joke and chuckles at seeing something funny.

And, the results found that people were able to correctly identify laughter caused by tickling 60% of the time.

They also used the laughter tracks to train and test a computer to test what the machine could learn about different types of laughter.

Researchers have proven what makes use laugh can change how we laugh

Why do people laugh?

Laughter isn't unique to humans.

Researchers from the University of Amsterdam said: "Laughter has deep evolutionary roots: many mammals, including chimpanzees, squirrel monkeys and dogs produce laughter-like vocalisations during play."

But no one is entirely sure why people do laugh but babies can laugh before they can even speak!